Word Frequency List of American English

These are entries 1-20,000 from the frequency lists that are available from www.wordfrequency.info. They are based on the 400+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which is the only large, recent, and genre-balanced corpus of American English. Due to the characteristics of the corpus on which the data is based, you can be sure that the words that you find here are ones that you would encounter in the "real world". Because the entries are arranged in order of frequency, you can maximize your study of English vocabulary in a way that is probably not available with any other resource.